Andrew

Holy Martyr Andrew was a Christian of the age of persecutions who confessed Christ and received the crown of martyrdom by fire. The Greek synaxaria commemorate him together with Probus, with whom he suffered.

The sources keep few details: neither the place nor the time is given, but they say that the two men, firm in their confession, were given to the flames and so gave up their souls. The verses of the synaxarion picture them standing in the fire as in a stadium.

Saint Andrew is commemorated on 9 July (new style).